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This paper explores the relationships between three interconnected research domains: national identity, narrative and border. These three concepts are crucial to produce and re-produce geography. This paper introduces these three concepts and explores how they are connected to each other, in order to draw a conceptual framework to understand and study national identities in relation to borders and narratives. The paper argues that national identities are historically modern constructs produced through narratives, internalised, multiple and subject to change. Narratives and discourses are significant to produce and reproduce these identities. Thus, narratives and identities are interdependent. This paper also argues that national identities are directly related to borders. By border concept, this paper does not only refer to a physical line or fences on space, but bordering as a process through which social and spatial homogenisations and differentiations occur. It is this bordering process that gives significance to identities.   

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